Kona Kilauea 1994 designer

[Bearvalley90]

Maybe an “inspired by Joe Murray” sticker would be about right, I went from a 92 Fire Mountain to a 98 Kilauea and clearly of the same lineage, with the latter being significantly better…

I still miss your old fire mountain; the snot green paint job was awesome! But yes, the Kilauea was a lot better and served you well for so long

 

[MattiThundrrr]

The waters are definitely muddy; his wiki page lists 1993 Mountain Bike Magazine "Bike of the Year" as his.
https://wiki.alquds.edu/?query=Joe_Murray_(cyclist)1993 Bike of the year was Kilauea
https://www.bowcycle.com/articles/t...he Kona Kilauea win,magazine was a nice push.

 

[Imlach]

"The Spirit of J. Murray" stickers available soon, stick them on ANY Kona bike up to 2000 to remove all doubt! Complimentary hammer with the same design to bash naysayers that question the integrity of your claims!

 

[ClassicDodo]

Perfect, just need a bike to put one on to go next to my ‘definitely designed’ by ‘91…

 

[JRGSXR]

Okay, with regards to the fish scale weld theory mentioned earlier…… my 96 bikes have the fishiest welds. The earlier I go, 94-92-91 the less fishy they get . I guess that theory doesn’t stand up then?